Priv.-Doz. Dr. phil. Dietrich Oberwittler

Senior Researcher / Research Group Leader

Kontakt:

Tel.: +49 (761) 7081-219

Fax: +49 (761) 7081-294

Mail: d.oberwittler@mpicc.de

PD Dr. Dietrich Oberwittler

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

Dietrich Oberwittler is a sociologist whose research interests are in the fields of juvenile delinquency, social ecology of crime, urban sociology, quantitative methodology, and social history of crime. He was the principal investigator of a study on neighbourhood and school contextual effects on adolescent crime. Based on self-reports of ca. 6500 adolescents and applying multilevel analysis, this study for the first time in Europe produced empirical evidence of the exacerbating effects on juvenile delinquency of living in concentrated disadvantage. He is also interested in the effects and interdependencies of crime and disorder on neighbourhood social cohesion and social capital. A new research project initiated by Dietrich Oberwittler focuses on a combined micro- and macro-level analysis of familial homicide-suicide events in several European countries. Other recent research activities include a spatial analysis of regional crime patterns in South-West Germany and public opinion research on punitiveness and the death penalty in China.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang:

After studying social sciences and history at the Universities of Münster and Bonn and at University College London, Dietrich Oberwittler was a doctoral student at the University of Trier where he received a Dr. phil. for a thesis on the development of juvenile justice in Germany and England between 1850 and 1920. In 1997, he joined the Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg. Since 1999, he has also taught sociology at the University of Freiburg. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Marie Curie fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, where he worked in the ESRC Cambridge Network SCoPiC (Social Contexts of Pathways in Crime) which is directed by Professor Per-Olof Wikström. Dietrich Oberwittler returned to the Max Planck Institute as a senior researcher in February 2006. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Privatdozent (comparable to associate professor) for Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, and in 2008, he moved this status to the University of Freiburg. In March 2008, he has been granted a W2 position as a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for a period of five years

laufende Forschungsprojekte


abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte


Research Awards and Professional Activities

2000-2003
Principal Investigator, research project “Social Problems and Juvenile Delinquency in an Ecological Perspective“ (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2004-2006
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge (European Commission, FP 6)

2005-2006
Affiliated Lecturer, Law Faculty, University of Cambridge

2006-2007
Marie-Curie Reintegration Grant, research project “Homicide-Suicide in European Countries” (European Commission, FP 6)

2008-2009
Principal Investigator, research project "Honour killings in Germany", with funding from BKA, Wiesbaden

2009-2011
Principal Investigator, research project "Regionale Kriminalitätsanalyse Baden-Württemberg", with funding from Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

2009-2012
co-Principal Investigator (with Hans-Joerg Albrecht and Sebastien Roché, Université de Grenoble), research project "Police and Adolescents in Multi-Ethnic Societies. Interactions and Mutual Perceptions between Police Forces and (Minority) Adolescents in France and Germany", funded by DFG and ANR (Appel d’offre franco-allemand en sciences humaines et sociales)

Member of the International Advisory Board, European Journal of Criminology
Member of Program Committee, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 2007

Referee, Journals:
Criminology, European Journal of Criminology, Asian Journal of Criminology, International Review of Victimology, Social Science & Medicine, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, Kriminologisches Journal

Referee, Funding Agencies:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds


Publikationen (Auswahl):

 

Vorträge:

complete list of presentations
Ort ⁄ Zeit:
 

Lehrveranstaltungen:

Wintersemester 2010/11
Einführung in die nichtlineare Regressionsanalyse (mit Dominik Gerstner / Forschungsmethoden)
Ort ⁄ Zeit: Dienstags 10-12h, CIP-Pool, Rempartstrasse

Sommersemester 2010
Einführung in die Bildungssoziologie
Ort ⁄ Zeit: Montags 16-18h (Universität Freiburg, Institut für Soziologie)

Sommersemester 2009
Sozialkapital und Vertrauen - Schmiermittel der Gesellschaft (gemeinsam mit Dr. Dina Hummelsheim)
Ort ⁄ Zeit: Mttwochs 10-12h (Universität Freiburg, Institut für Soziologie, Seminarraum 0003c in der Hermann-Herder-Str. 9)

Wintersemester 2008/09
Tödliche Gewalt. Sozialwissenschaftliche Erklärungsansätze
Ort ⁄ Zeit: Mittwochs 10-12h (Universität Freiburg, Institut für Soziologie)

Sommersemester 2008
Multiple Regressionsanalyse
Ort ⁄ Zeit: Universität Freiburg, Institut für Soziologie
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